fine-cmdline.nvim VS goneovim

I have fine-cmdline.nvim. It does what I need but it doesn't the UI I want. Is basically a floating input, nothing fancy.

In your reply you mentioned that users can create plugins with "better" ui for cmdline and link to https://github.com/VonHeikemen/fine-cmdline.nvim

fine-cmdline.nvim, enter ex-commands in a floating input (uses nui.nvim).

Potentially https://github.com/VonHeikemen/fine-cmdline.nvim?

For the command line area there is fine-cmdline. Haven't used it personally.

There isn't. Not a real pretty command palette anyway. There is fine-cmdline, but that just offers you a floating input.

Although I remember I saw fine-cmdline, maybe that's what you're looking for (I haven't tried it myself)

I've been using it for a few weeks and other than not being able to see the command line (which can be solved with another plugin), it's basically perfect.

In fine-cmdline I use an on_change event (provided by nui.nvim's input) to manipulate an internal variable in realtime. It's what's makes possible "smart history search".

fine-cmdline.nvim is the plugin.

yeah, looks like https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim

This sounds like goneovim

fvim and goneovim have support for gui-widgets.nvim which is a sort of protocol to define images and let Neovim GUIs display them.

but you can use a GUI like https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim or https://github.com/neovide/neovide#remote-tcp-support

If you're fine with leaving the terminal, Goneovim has it built-in

Neovim in a terminal can only display monospaced characters. However there are GUIs for Neovim and Goneovim used to have a markdown preview.

I think the main thing now is probably waiting for one of the nvim GUIs to develop the appropriate features. Goneovim looks like it's getting there and may already be good enough for your needs. E.g. you can break any nvim window (floats, splits etc) into a separate external desktop window.

GUI - per se it runs in the terminal but there are GUIs you can use, e.g.: https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim

you can start a headless neovim inside the container with nvim --listen 127.0.0.1:7777 --headless and then use something like goneovim (https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim) to connect to this instance. all your tools (npm, linters etc) will be inside the container

Instead, Nvim provides an RPC protocol that may be implemented by external GUIs. For example, there exists a plugin that embeds Nvim into Firefox when editing textboxes, GUIs that leverage Nvim's multigrid support to support smooth scrolling, translucent popups, minimaps, etc. such as Uivonim, Goneovim and Neovide, and more.